InstagramFeed – To display your Insta feed. This plugin from SmashBaloon gives you tonnes of options for customising different feeds to display in different areas of your site using simple shortcodes.

Sumo – Use Sumo to promote and automate social sharing on all your posts

Specific plugins for food sites

Depending on your business, you may also need plugins that give you other specific functionality. You might be looking for plugins that can help with making restaurant reservations, ordering takeaways or processing eCommerce sales.

I’ve used most of the plugins below either through this blog or for my freelance photography site Fig & Fennel, my husband’s business Döner Summer, or in my day job. Any that I haven’t personally used come highly recommended from peers in the industry.

WP RecipeMaker – Easily insert recipes into blog posts, with schema markup built-in, so they’re perfectly formatted for Google as well as being beautiful and easy-to-follow on your site.

WP Pizza – While most of your takeout orders may be managed through an app like JustEat or Deliveroo, a plugin like WP Pizza gives customers the option of ordering directly via your site.

QuickRestaurantMenu – To manage and format your menu, making it easy for customers to find exactly what they want to eat before they even step foot through your door.

OpenTable – This plugin integrates with the OpenTable app, to allow customers to easily make reservations, and you to easily manage those bookings.

Install your plugins, activate them, make any customisations required, and keep them up to date. You don’t need to make decisions and install all yourplugins before you get going – you’ll likely adjust as you go along.